armgaunt
adjEtymology Perhaps arm + gaunt.
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Archaic, Nonce word Of uncertain meaning; perhaps describing gaunt or slender limbs.
- And soberly did mount an armgaunt steed.1607, William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra:
- Quixote comes, in battered mail, Armgaunt, with eyes of some keen haggard hawk Far from his eyrie1951, Clark Ashton Smith, The Dark Chateau: And Other Poems, page 25:
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- SERVANT (Imitating the style of his master) The awful armgaunt knight who wields the Gorgon, shaking three shadowy plumes.1979, William Joseph Myles Starkie, The Acharnians of Aristophanes, page 195: